A carriage to travel without horses. The proprietors of this extraordinary machine, respectfully inform the nobility, gentry, and others, that they purpose to exhibit it at the Royal-Circus, St. George's-Fields, ... until the 25th of this month, and no longer. ...
Surrey Theatre.
[London] : Kemmish, printer, no. 61, King-Street, Borough,
[1789]
Francis Douce, who saw the spectacle on 16 May 1789, noted on a copy of this handbill that the carriage "was very slowly impelled by a man concealed in the inside and no part whatever of its mechanism exposed to view".
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